Exporting HTML

Unless you specify otherwise, when you export a sliced Fireworks document, what you're actually exporting is an HTML file and its images.

Fireworks generates pure HTML that can be read by most web browsers and HTML editors. There are a variety of ways to export Fireworks HTML:

• Export an HTML file, which you can later open for editing in an HTML editor.
• Copy HTML code to the Clipboard in Fireworks, and then paste that code directly into an existing HTML document.
• Export an HTML file, open it in an HTML editor, manually copy sections of code from the file, and paste that code into another HTML document.
• Use the Update HTML command to make changes to an HTML file you've previously created.

  NOTE

  Adobe Dreamweaver shares a tight integration with Fireworks. Fireworks handles the export of HTML to Dreamweaver differently than it handles export to other HTML editors. If you are exporting Fireworks HTML to Dreamweaver, see Working with Adobe Dreamweaver.

By default, Fireworks specifies UTF-8 encoding when you export HTML, which ensures that the characters in the HTML file will be displayed correctly for all languages.

You can also export HTML as Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) layers and XHTML.

To define how Fireworks exports HTML, you use the HTML Setup dialog box. These settings can be document-specific or used as your default settings for all HTML that Fireworks exports.